Assistant Professor Linda Halgunseth and HDFS graduate student Alex Reid presented their poster “Parenting Practices and Mexican Adolescents’ Psychological Adjustment: The Role of Gender” at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Babies, Boys and Men of Color special topics meeting. The meeting was held October 6-9, 2016 in Tampa, FL.
On October 15 the work of eight HDFS graduate students and five HDFS faculty was presented in eight posters at the New England Psychological Association (NEPA) meeting in Worcester, MA. Here is a listing of the participants and their presentations.
Emeritus Professor Jane Goldman presented her poster “Food Messages Presented in Media Designed for Young Children: Books and Television”, at the SRCD Technology and Media in Children’s Development special topics meeting in Irvine, CA on October 27-30, 2016.
At the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) annual meeting to be held on November 2-5, many UConn HDFS faculty and students will be traveling to Minneapolis to share their most recent research. Fourteen HDFS graduate students and ten HDFS faculty are authors on 20 presentations there this year. Here is a chronological list of these presentations.
Congratulations to HDFS graduate student Khris-Ann Small! Her project, “Black and Latino parents’ experiences with the Positive Parenting Program” was awarded funding from the Collaborative to Advance Equity Through Research on Women and Girls of Color, which is sponsored by the White House Council for Women and Girls, through UConn.
HDFS Graduate student Carmen Britton’s Fulbright grant is from November 2016 thru August 2017. She will partner with the Head of the Sociology Department at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka, to conduct qualitative research relating to the experiences of people with disabilities in Community Based Rehabilitation.
HDFS graduate student Jia Li Liu has been offered a Fulbright Research Grant to study in Hong Kong. The grant is from July 2016 and March 2017. Jia Li will be collaborating with Dr. Florrie Fei-Yin Ng in the Educational Psychology department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. They will be working on a mixed method study that examines Chinese immigrant and native Hong Kong mother and teacher ethnotheories of shyness, related socialization practices, and shy children’s school adjustment.
HDFS doctoral student Tanika Simpson was quoted in an article entitled 
HDFS Graduate student Elizabeth Siembida has been accepted into the National Cancer Institute’s preeminent Cancer Prevention and Control Fellowship Program (CPFP) in Bethesda, MD. This highly competitive fellowship (accepting only 10% of applicants from across the country) is designed to provide a strong foundation for scientists and clinicians to train in the field of cancer prevention and control. As part of the program, Liz will be getting her MPH degree during her first year, followed by three years of mentored research with investigators and national leaders at the NCI or FDA.